Beloved Is Where We Begin – Jan Richardson
https://intrinsicheart.com/beloved-is-where-we-begin/
Tomorrow Never Knows (Cras Numquam Scire) – Opening song from anime series The Mystic Archives of Dantalian (Dantalian no Shoka), performed by Yucca featuring Ono Daisuke, lyrics by Norikusu Benedikutusu. You can listen to the song at https://soundcloud.com/jeilloid/cras-numquam-scire-yucca-ft-ono-daisuke There are a variety of translations online. Here are a couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4of3aVAtGI4 (music with lyrics) and https://dantaliannoshoka.fandom.com/wiki/Crastinus_Dies_Nunquam_Sciat
Winter Interval of Deer People – Lois Red Elk
https://mountainjournal.org/lois-red-elk-offers-a-new-poem-for-the-time-of-the-winter-solstice/
Lakota – Joni Mitchell
https://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=141
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town – E.E. Cummings
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22653/anyone-lived-in-a-pretty-how-town
Quote from E.E. Cummings – Excerpt
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9607928-a-poet-is-somebody-who-feels-and-who-expresses-his
On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou
https://poets.org/poem/pulse-morning
Quote from Maya Angelou: “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
The Hardest Blessing – Jan Richardson
https://intrinsicheart.com/the-hardest-blessing/
Buoyancy – Jalaluddin Rumi
https://intrinsicheart.com/buoyancy/
Invictus – William Ernest Henley
https://intrinsicheart.com/bursts-of-resilience/
Art: “Deer in the Snow” (Rehe in Schnee) (Excerpt) by Franz Marc
